Butter-carrier



(No Model.)

S. A. OURRIER.

BUTTER BARRIER.

Patented June 8; 1886.

NITED STATES "AT ENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL A. OURRIER, OF CONCORD, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

BUTTER-CARRIER.

QTP'ECEFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No, 343,301, dated June8, 1886.

Application filed July 1. 1885. Serial No. 170,375.. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL A. OURRIER, a, citizen of the United States,residing at Concord, in the county of Merrimac and State of NewHampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inButter-Carriers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to devices adapted for use of farmers and otherswho carry from ten to fifty pounds of,butter(more or less) for theretail trade.

The invention consists in the combination, with a suitable case or boxfor carrying butter, of a series of closed drawers having a removablebottom, upon which cakes of butter maybe placed, said drawers beingadapted for insertion and removal from said case, also to be inclosedtherein, the object of my invention being to provide a butter-carrierfor use as above, by means of which a dealer may peddle butter from doorto door, if he desires, from morning until night, and always be enabledthereby to show it in a perfectly cool, fresh, sweet, and cleancondition.

In the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, Figure1 represents a perspective view of my improved carrier, having a portionof the door broken out, exposing to view the drawers in which the butteris placed, and having the hinged cover part way open and revealing theice-compartment containing a cake of ice. Fig. 2 is a sectional plantaken below the ice-compartment and having the butter drawers removed.Fig. 3 is a detail view in perspective of one of the butter-drawers.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in all the views.

Arectangular case, A, is formed by means of side boards, A, andrectangular corner-uprights a. One of these sides (properlythe front) isprovided with a hinged door, B, and a suitable cover, B, is hinged tothe top of said case, which affords convenient access to anice-compartment, a. This may be formed as shown in Fig. 1, wherebysufficient space is left between two of its sides and the side boards,A, for the passage of air, or all four of its sides may be similarlyconstructed, if desired.

Suitable ways, 0, extending from one to another of the corner-uprightsa, on two sides of the case A, serve as supports for the drawers D,which may be inserted or removed from said case by means of the door B.These consistof two sides, D, one end, D and a top, the missing end, D,being secured to the bottom (1, which is adapted to slide in groovesformed on the inner side of the sides D. WVhen in service,the butter isplaced upon the slide (1, which may or may not be provided withpartitions d, for preventing small cakes of butter from coming incontact while the case may bejolting in a wagon over a rough road.

\Vhile the corner uprights a serve to strengthen the case A, theirpurpose is primarily for carrying the ways 0, whereby air has freecirculation between the side boards, A, and the sides of the drawers D.For this same purpose stops 0 may also be placed on the back ends of theways 0, or equivalent devices, and thus prevent the drawers from slidingway back. The ways 0, when constructed as shown in the drawings, willalso prevent the drawers from coming in contact one with another, andthus air is allowed to circulate freely around and between said drawers.

It is not my intention to make this case as are those of refrigerators,and fit the drawers therein, for by actual experience I have found itunnecessary so to do.

The case is simply one thickness of wood, having no lining, and I havefound by placing butter in this form of drawer, and placing said drawerswithin said case in the manner described, said butter is kept quite coolenough ordinarily without the use of ice.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination of a closed drawer having the front attached to thebottom thereof, upon which cakes of butter may be placed, said bottombeing adapted for insertion and removal, with an outer casing adapted toinclose said drawer, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. The combination of a closed drawer having the front attached to asliding bottom provided with longitudinal and transverse partitions,between which cakes of butter may be placed, with an outer casingadapted to inclose said drawer, substantially as and for the purpose setforth.

' 3. The combination of a series of closed drawers, in which the frontis attached to a sliding bottom upon which cakes of butter may beplaced, with an outer casing adapted to inelose said drawers,substantially as and .for the purpose specified.

4. The combination of a series of closed drawers, in which the front isattached to a sliding bottom provided with longitudinal and transversepartitions, between which cakes of butter may be placed, with an outercasing adapted to inclose said drawers, substantially as and for thepurpose specified.

5. In aclosed drawer, a removable bottom, and a front attached thereto,and longitudinal 6. The combination of closed drawers, sub-- stantiallyof the construction described, with a suitable casing adapted to inclosesaid drawers, leaving a space between and on either side of the same forthe free circulation of air, as set forth.

I11 testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

SAMUEL A. GURRIER.

\Vitnesses:

J. B. THURSTON, L. D. STEvENs.

